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Interesting! We are more focused on automations as opposed to testing - would you say the same applies there as well?

Also Selenium does have 10x the downloads of Playwright on PyPI - is Python different or do you think that metric is misleading?

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Selenium IS the more popular library, but it’s mostly used in more old-school places like banks and large corporations. This is fairly anecdotal but companies up for AI-guided paths in prod will more likely be on Cypress or Playwright, and from that Playwright fits in for your case because it’s also webdriver driven. The package actually includes a webdriver btw, so you don’t have to ask users to manage that themselves (for example brew chromedriver has to have permission changes to run if you follow your readme, which playwright would avoid).

Edit: as they both use the same interface it might not be too bad to support both?

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